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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

ORLANDO, FL

Using AI and NLP to Alleviate

Physician Burnout

Context: AI as a New Technology

It is Day 1: We’re very early in this Journey- we’ll be

wrong

Other Industries are ahead- we need to learn from them

(Financial Services, Online Retail, Digital Marketing, etc.)

New Technology Paths: Enable existing models before

creating something entirely new- Internet, Online

Magazines, Social Media

PSJH Digital Journeys

Make Caregiving Easier Better Serve Medicaid

Power Behavioral

Health

Enable New Revenue

Streams

TRANSFORM

OUR FUTURE

BE OUR

COMMUNITIES’

HEALTH PARTNER

Personalization and

Convenience

Simplify Care

Define

Problems

Size

Own, Find, or

Build

Commercialize

Find/Partner

Spinout

Best of Breed

Incubate/ Spinout

Digital

+ Clinical/Ops

Marketing

PSJH: DIGITAL INNOVATION MODEL

Digital Journeys

Distributors BookstoresPublishers

Readers

Authors

E-commerce

(1997)

Kindle

(2007)

Self-publishing

(2005)

Innovating at the End of the Value Chain

Clinicians &

Caregivers

Health

Systems

Insurance

Companies

Employers Patients

Enabling The “Sacred Encounter”

Reducing Friction for Providers

The Positives The Friction

Powerful Data Collection

Improved Quality Outcomes

Clinical Decision Support

Increased Screen Time

Physician Burnout

Untapped Data

Navigation: Increased Access Options Complicates

Patient Experience

The Beginning Expanding Care Improving Access Today

Hospital

Payer

PCP

Urgent

Care

Retail

Clinics

Provider

Hospital

Payer

PCP

Emergency

Urgent

Care

Retail

Clinics

Hospital

Payer

PCP

Emergency

Express

Clinics

Virtual

Visits

At Home

Concierge

Medicine

Wellness

How AI Can Help

The Sacred Encounter

Consumer-Facing AI

Navigation/Triage

Concierge

Diagnosis Support

Self-Service

Where can I get care for

this condition?

What insurance plans

do you accept?

What do these

symptoms mean?

I want a prescription

refill.

Help patients

understand their

options

Help patients

understand the system

and their benefits

Help diagnose patients

before seeing a

provider

All-encompassing

assistant to navigate a

patient’s needs

Patient

Need

Solution

Modular: Using Several Technologies for Different

Contexts

Effective AI

Context-Aware: Provides Help in Different

Patient/Provider Contexts

Multi-Channel: Voice, Chat, Smart Speaker

Persistent: No Need to Relearn Prior History or

Context

Accurate: Especially in Health Care

Vendor Approaches

Automation Engagement

Analysis

Analysis: AI as Advisor

Enables clinicians and patients to make better decisions, powered by

predictive models and real-time data support

Engagement: AI as Customer

Service

Offers personalized, thoughtful,

and helpful customer service

experiences, with no wait or

cost to the health system

Automation: AI as Assistant

Takes tedious tasks and

automates them intelligently,

freeing up patients and/or

providers to focus on other

tasks

Digital Scribes

Consumer ChatbotsRobotic Process

Automation

Clinical Decision

Support

AI Diagnosis

Solutions Early Results

Open

-ended virtual

physician assistant for

broad, complex use cases

Typical Physician Daily Epic Usage

AI-Supported Physician Daily Epic Usage

PSJH Current Work:

Virtual Physician Assistants

Solution Early Results

Grace is a patient

-facing AI capable of

directing patients to an appropriate venue

of care based on their symptoms or

condition, as well as answering simple

FAQ

-style questions. Uses open-source

AI.

Grace Symptom Checker – Service Line Listing

Grace FAQ – Help Page

PSJH Current Work:

Consumer-Facing NaV Chatbots

Grace

2% 90%

Click Rate Patient Routing

Accuracy

18% 80%

Click Rate Answer Accuracy

• Before the Visit: Collect data from patient and mine EMR information to

assist the provider and prepare the visit

• Smarter Care: Reduce or eliminate unnecessary care that should be

algorithmic/self-service

• Navigate: Patients to the right care option

• Top-of-License: Help direct lower level licensed (or the patients themselves)

to conduct low-acuity physical exams where a higher license is not available

or not required

• Seamless Experience: Partner with technology companies and platforms to

modularly access many AI/bots while providing a consistent experience and

continuity

Vision for AI and Bots to Support

Patients & Providers

What Are AI, ML, Neural Networks, and NLP?

Artificial

Intelligence (AI)

Machine Learning

(ML)

Neural

Networks

Artificial Intelligence:

System exhibiting intelligent behavior

Machine Learning:

AI + improving over time based on data,

without human programming

Natural Language Processing:

Understanding human "talk" and "talking back"

to us in ways we understand

Neural Networks:

A type of ML using large volumes of labelled

data inputs with less need for human help than

other classification algorithms

www.HealthcareMachineLearningAI.com

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Aaron Martin

Providence St. Joseph Health

@aaronmartinfc